Architecture

Trabeated

- TRABEATED (adjective)The adjective TRABEATED has 1 sense:1. not arcuate; having straight horizontal beams or lintels (rather than arches)Familiarity information: TRABEATED used as an adjective is very rare.

Trabeatedconstructed according to the postand-lintel method.Tracery ...

Trabeated/Arcuated IllustrationTrabeated (detail) and arcuated (detail) construction.Note how the local stone is only capable of spanning short distances and in order to achieve wider spans, an arch has to be used.see bridge terminologyseeclassical architecture ...

trabeatedarchitecture - the discipline dealing with the principles of design and construction and ornamentation of fine buildings; "architecture and eloquence are mixed arts whose end is sometimes beauty and sometimes use"straight - free from curves or angles; "a straight line" ...

The type continued well into the 17th century in its modified forms: L-plan, with a jamb or wing at one corner; Z-plan, with a jamb or wing at each diagonally opposite corner.TrabeatedDependent structurally on the upright (post) and beam (lintel) principle.

But unlike Classical structures, which operate through trabeation (seeTrabeated (architecture) ), the gable ends of many buildings are actually bearing-wall structures. Thus, the detailing tends to be ambiguous, misleading, and to some architects "deceitful".

Post and Beam - Comprising of vertical posts supporting horizontal beams; another term for this is ‘trabeated' ...